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Job Summary
Work as part of a DevOps team, leverage specialist analysis & testing tools, frameworks, techniques and practices to elicit, define and organize business requirements. Translate & document business requirements into user stories & specifications (Full Stack, Cross System) detailing integration points, business & associated risk / opportunities to be realised. And following this analysis, work collaboratively within squads during design & delivery activity including assuming responsibility for manual application testing processes, frameworks & outcomes
Job Description
The Front Arena team in CIB Global Markets Technology is looking for a Specialist Solution Analyst to join a high-performing DevOps team. The role involves interpreting business needs, converting them into robust system solutions, and ensuring high-quality delivery through effective manual testing and close collaboration with both engineering and business stakeholders.
The successful candidate will contribute across business analysis, solution design, and testing, with a strong emphasis on delivering solutions for global financial markets within a fast-paced Agile environment.
Key Responsibilities
Analysis & Requirements
- Partner with business stakeholders and DevOps teams to understand business processes
- Elicit, analyse, and document business and system requirements
- Translate requirements into clear user stories with detailed acceptance criteria
- Manage and prioritise backlogs aligned to business value
- Contribute to solution roadmaps, effort estimates, and business cases
- Work on complex, high-impact Front Arena solutions
- Influence solution quality from concept through to production
Solution Design (Within DevOps Context)
- Be part of a collaborative DevOps culture
- Translate business needs into detailed system requirements, including integrations, interfaces, and functionality within and across technologies
- Use UML / BPMN to model business and system processes
- Work collaboratively with project / program teams, squads, scrum masters and engineers to define backlog, release & DevOps / project planning implications of the requirements Collaborate with engineers, scrum masters, and product owners on backlog and release planning
- Review solution designs and support requirement changes during delivery
Testing & Delivery
- Define and execute manual testing strategies and test cases
- Execute test cases, analyse results, and provide real-time feedback to delivery teams
- Support system integration testing, production validation, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Collaborate with automation testing teams where applicable
- Monitor solution stability and quality throughout testing and release
Collaboration
- Participate in peer reviews, knowledge sharing, and problem-solving across teams
Skills & Experience required
- 5+ years’ experience in a System / Solution Analyst / Business Analyst in Agile or DevOps environments
- Strong hands-on experience with Front Arena (trading, risk, valuation, or integrations) preferred however, experience with other front‑to‑back trading, risk, or capital markets platforms that are closely related and transferable to Front Arena (e.g. Murex, Calypso, Endur, Summit, Sophis, ION platforms) will also be considered.
- Working knowledge of Python for scripting and test support
- Practical experience using SQL for data analysis, validation, and troubleshooting
- Solid background in requirements analysis, user stories, and backlog management
- Strong manual testing experience
- Experience with UML, BPMN, or similar modelling techniques
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills
Education
Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology
- Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.*
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